Podcast 102 – Three steps to improve the productivity of your project team

Three steps to improve the productivity of your project team

In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to a regular guest of Fix My Project Chaos, Nicole Nader, about how to improve the productivity of your project team.

Nicole became a national director of the Australian Institute of Project Management in October 2015.

She is currently a project manager for ASC Shipbuilding and is responsible for the implementation and operation of its project management office, executing strategy, complex problem solving and overseeing risk management.

She has delivered common sense, strategically aligned solutions in the defence industry for more than 10 years and has a number of business and project management qualifications.

Points raised in this podcast:

Project managers should try to challenge the notion that a project must be managed in a particular way simply because “this is the way it’s always been done”.

It is important to make sure your team understands just how much work is involved in the project. One way to do this is to create a huge wall calendar for the project that contains every single report, meeting or task due over a three-month period. Non-essential meetings and tasks can then be culled. The calendar can help team members be clear in their responsibilities and where they fit in the timeline of the project.